Photo Flash: First Look at Richmond Shakespeare Festival's COMEDY OF ERRORS

Richmond Shakespeare Festival is starting off the summer with a double bill as the Comedy of Errors and King Lear are set to open in the newly renovated Starr-Gennett Pavilion in the Whitewater Gorge Park in downtown Richmond, Indiana on June 9!

A professional company using actors from Actors Equity Association and others from near and far, Richmond Shakespeare also provides opportunities for interns from local colleges and universities including Earlham College, Miami University, Ball State and Wright State.

Opening first is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays, The Comedy of Errors. It delivers on the promise of its title as subtle politicians, desperate moneylenders, and jealous spouses are driven to distraction by two sets of identical twins bent on causing confusion and hilarity.

Next will be Shakespeare's existential masterpiece, King Lear, which explores the family conflicts resulting from its patriarch's emotional collapse. Children, friends and subjects demonstrate everything from wretched cruelty to perfect love.

Producing Artistic Director (who is also Executive Director of the international Shakespeare Theatre Association) says, "Anytime is a good time to come to Richmond, but the summer is really the best. Come see some of the only Shakespeare being produced right here in beautiful Wayne County. We're only an hour and change from Cincinnati and Indianapolis, and even closer than that to Dayton and some of our other surrounding communities."

The Festival runs June 9-26 in the Starr-Gennett Pavilion in the Whitewater Gorge Park at 201 S. First Street in Richmond Indiana. Tickets are available online at www.richmondshakes.org, or by calling 1.800.838.3006.